Improvement in match-splints



:NITEJJ STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. FRENCH, OF DAVENPORT, iowA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MATCH-SP-LINTS.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,258, dated October 17, 1876 application filed May 5, 1876.

To all 'whom it 'may concern:

. Be it known that I, UHARLEsA. FRENCH, of Davenport, in the county of Scott andState of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match-Splints, of which the follo wing is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference'being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of the match, and Fig. 2 a transverse section on the line x x of'Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

The'object of this invention is to render the wood of which the -body of the match is.

the end of the match whichis covered by the composition into several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and then specifically pointed out in the claim. A

In carrying out my invention, I cause one end of the match-sticks b to be split, by any suitable mechanism, into a number of parts, c c, and, by using a splitting-instrument of the proper shape, these parts, after the splitting, will remain slightly separated from each other, as is clearly shown in the drawings, thus allowing theigniting composition into.

which they are dipped to completely surround and embed each of the fibers, thus causing them to readily ignite and burst into a flame when submitted to Ithe heat of the burning composition.

' Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent the following As a new article of manufacture, a match-- stick having one of its ends split or divided, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

CHAS. A. FRENCH. Witnesses:

S. D. BAWDEN, S. FRENCH. 

